Flight-test evaluation of sensor fusion algorithms for attitude estimation

Jason N. Gross; Yu Gu; Matthew B. Rhudy; Srikanth Gururajan; Marcello R. Napolitano

doi:10.1109/TAES.2012.6237583

Flight-test evaluation of sensor fusion algorithms for attitude estimation

Jason N. Gross, Yu Gu, Matthew B. Rhudy, Srikanth Gururajan, Marcello R. Napolitano

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Abstract

In this paper, several Global Positioning System/inertial navigation system (GPS/INS) algorithms are presented using both extended Kalman filter (EKF) and unscented Kalman filter (UKF), and evaluated with respect to performance and complexity. The contributions of this study are that attitude estimates are compared with independent measurements provided by a mechanical vertical gyroscope using 23 diverse sets of flight data, and that a fundamental difference between EKF and UKF with respect to linearization is evaluated.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	6237583
Pages (from-to)	2128-2139
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Volume	48
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2012.6237583
State	Published - 2012

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Aerospace Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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